first name
IRENA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,054 people named Irena, 87.5% reported their origin as White, 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Irena peaked in 2024, when 34 babies got the name.
At least 2,186 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Irena by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #1,718. The largest share of babies named Irena, 17.6%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
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7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Irena, most common first.
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